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host: gary johnson. guest: when i entered into the republican race for the nomination, i thought it was going to be hard to marginalize two candidates onstage talking about the same thing. i am talking about ron paul and myself. i found myself excluded in ways that are unfair. this country was not when i believe to be what it was. which was giving everybody an equal shake at this. it is a system that is manipulated and different than my experience running for governor of new mexico. running for the republican nomination for governor in mexico, the republican party in new mexico was very inclusive, including me in all the debates and discussions. they made me part of the process believing the eventual nominee would be stronger as a result of more oysters. -- more voices as opposed to less. host: gina, good morning. caller: yes, good morning. thank you for running. i was a ron paul supporter. you know, you are right on on all the issues and on the war. i do commend you. you can look up on my friends page a
host: gary johnson. guest: when i entered into the republican race for the nomination, i thought it was going to be hard to marginalize two candidates onstage talking about the same thing. i am talking about ron paul and myself. i found myself excluded in ways that are unfair. this country was not when i believe to be what it was. which was giving everybody an equal shake at this. it is a system that is manipulated and different than my experience running for governor of new mexico. running for...
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a celebrated member of your commission, magic johnson, quit saying that there was too much inaction. where is this widespread feeling coming from that your administration is not doing enough about aids? >> coming from the political process. we have increased funding for aids. we've doubled it on research and on every other aspect of it. my request for this year was $4.9 billion for aids -- ten times as much per aids victim as per cancer victim. i think that we're showing the proper compassion and concern. so i can't tell you where it's coming from, but i am very much concerned about aids and i believe that we've got the best researchers in the world out there at n.i.h. working the problem. we're funding them i wish there was more money -- but we're funding them far more than any time in the past, and we're going to keep on doing that. i don't know. i was a little disappointed in magic because he came to me and i said, "now if you see something we're not doing, get ahold of me. call me, let me know." he went to one meeting, and then we heard that he was stepping down. so he's replaced
a celebrated member of your commission, magic johnson, quit saying that there was too much inaction. where is this widespread feeling coming from that your administration is not doing enough about aids? >> coming from the political process. we have increased funding for aids. we've doubled it on research and on every other aspect of it. my request for this year was $4.9 billion for aids -- ten times as much per aids victim as per cancer victim. i think that we're showing the proper...
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johnson. but at that point, with thurgood marshall's victories in the supreme court and the republicans pushing through civil rights with dwight eisenhower sending federal troops to enforce marshall's victories down in little rock, with bill clinton's friend, orvil favis in the schoolhouse door, the democrats out of political calculation had to pretend to care about civil rights. the first civil rights legislation ever pushed by a democrat was in 1964 act yet and still far more republicans voted for it in the house and the senate. in both houses it was about 80% republican, 60% democrat. the republicans who opposed it opposed it for constitutional grounds. they had voted for every other civil rights bill. not so the democrats and they were not conservative democrats. they were liberal democrats. j. william fullbright, bill clinton's mentor, big supporter of the u.n., albert gore sr. gore's father. and all of these characters by the way were ferocious opponents of joe mccarthy. and the longest
johnson. but at that point, with thurgood marshall's victories in the supreme court and the republicans pushing through civil rights with dwight eisenhower sending federal troops to enforce marshall's victories down in little rock, with bill clinton's friend, orvil favis in the schoolhouse door, the democrats out of political calculation had to pretend to care about civil rights. the first civil rights legislation ever pushed by a democrat was in 1964 act yet and still far more republicans...
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johnson at 10:00 at night when i called everybody to my desk she said to make sure everybody watches the speech. people came from the shadows of the headquarters and it is nighttime and i have this team of people around me and we are talking. talking its all of a sudden you see everybody in the headquarters headed towards the tv. the president was about to speak -- the candidate was about to speak. he gave this speech called yes we can. he talked about -- it was the best victory speech i had never heard. in heard. it talked abouthe long lines at the poll. he congratulated hillary clinton on a great race. he went on to talk about the long lines at the polls and how you made this happen. he was talking to hillary's staff as well. literally, at headquarters, when he was done, everybody started talking, as if he had been speaking to us. so that was a real value. david plouffe put together an e- mail. he treated us as if everybody was a stakeholder. he always made you feel he was bringing everybody along with him. that made everybody feel like an insider. if you look back on yes we can an
johnson at 10:00 at night when i called everybody to my desk she said to make sure everybody watches the speech. people came from the shadows of the headquarters and it is nighttime and i have this team of people around me and we are talking. talking its all of a sudden you see everybody in the headquarters headed towards the tv. the president was about to speak -- the candidate was about to speak. he gave this speech called yes we can. he talked about -- it was the best victory speech i had...
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. >> steven johnson is our guest on sunday. the director of a books will look at science history, the cyberworld, popular culture, live at noon eastern on book tv on c-span 2. >> the bureau of labor statistics has announced the unemployment rate has dropped from 8.1% to 7.8% in september, the lowest level since january 2009. president obama spoken by the job picture at this venue at george mason university. it is about 30 minutes. >> hello, everybody! [cheers and applause] hello, george mason! hello, patriots! [cheers and applause] good to see you guys. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you! thank you. thank you so much. thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. everybody, have a seat. have a seat. thank you. well, it is good to be here. i am so proud to have katherine's support. can you give her a big round of applause for that great introduction. [applause] it's also good to know that we've got the former governor and next united states senator from the commonwealth of virginia, tim kaine! and your congressm
. >> steven johnson is our guest on sunday. the director of a books will look at science history, the cyberworld, popular culture, live at noon eastern on book tv on c-span 2. >> the bureau of labor statistics has announced the unemployment rate has dropped from 8.1% to 7.8% in september, the lowest level since january 2009. president obama spoken by the job picture at this venue at george mason university. it is about 30 minutes. >> hello, everybody! [cheers and applause]...